diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 22a96314549..5a615175d2c 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
     <wiremock.version>2.35.2</wiremock.version>
     <xmlunit.version>2.10.0</xmlunit.version>
     <xz.version>1.10</xz.version>
-    <zstd.version>1.5.6-5</zstd.version>
+    <zstd.version>1.5.6-6</zstd.version>
 
     <!-- =====================================================
          Pinned transitive dependency version properties (in alphabetical order)
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_github_luben_zstd_jni.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_github_luben_zstd_jni.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..24d3f85b8a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_com_github_luben_zstd_jni.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="2998" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2998"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `com.github.luben:zstd-jni` to version `1.5.6-6`</description>
+</entry>